To refine the Hydra

I suppose what I’m saying is: “What you see is what you get.” These days, after a great deal of hard Work, I have refined the Hydra down to one head. I’m Alan Moore when I’m talking to my daughters, or to my eighty-nine-year-old aunt, or to the police, or to my readers, or to myself. I’m Alan Moore when I’m writing Supreme or From Hell or my part of this discussion. I’m the same person I am when I take out the bin-bags on a Thursday night. This is not easy, but it is at least possible, and, I believe, desirable.